Ibaco Icecream

Nice place. Amazing flavors of icecream. Love it. Customizable toppings.

Best place to visit and around 15-18 varieties of ice creams are available.
My choice is Fig and Honey.
Chocolates and Cakes are also delicious 😋

Worst experience, taste is below average and rude behavior/reckless towards the customers

wide range of ice cream flavours and toppings. quality and hygiene however seem to have dropped slightly since they opened. some ice cream flavours are overtly sweet these days. overall still a good place to hang out and get some ice cream in ongole!

One of the best ice creams that I ever tasted. Though it is costly the taste remains good

Ice Cream quality is very good. Staff behaviour also good

Not soo many flavors available here.And I felt some kind of colour taste in the ice cream.

It's to costly as well as to tastyIbaco is dedicated to conjuring up a delightful, unique ice cream eating experience. One based on the scoop 'n' serve format. With 36 flavours inspired from exotic places around the world, Ibaco aims to offer more choices and deliver greater standards of taste to its customers.Ibaco is dedicated to conjuring up a delightful, unique ice cream eating experience. One based on the scoop 'n' serve format. With 36 flavours inspired from exotic places around the world, Ibaco aims to offer more choices and deliver greater standards of taste to its customers.Chandramogan has come a long way from his tiny factory-cum-sales outlet: today, his company's constructed area measures a three million sq. ft. and employs around 8,000 people. His company launched Ibaco six years ago, that lets customers enjoy ice cream as scoops with a choice of toppings, in a nicely done-up parlour.Return to frontpage

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CHENNAI, SEPTEMBER 13, 2016 15:02 IST
UPDATED: SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 19:04 IST
R.G. Chandramogan, Chairman and Managing Director of Hatsun Agro Product, on how he built an ice cream and dairy empire

“More the sun, more the ice cream,” says R.G. Chandramogan, Chairman and Managing Director of Hatsun Agro Product. This is why he named his ice cream brand, Arun. Seated in a sun-filled corner office at the swanky Hatsun building on OMR, the 67-year-old speaks with a calm that comes with having tackled life’s extremes.

Chandramogan has narrated Arun’s story so many times that he’s initially matter-of-fact about his journey — he prefers not to romanticise the past. “I had no big plans, initially. I just wanted to start something,” he begins. But the moment he mentions the day he started a small ice cream business with Rs. 13,000 when he was “21 and one-month-old”, his voice picks up and he talks about his Royapuram days with enthusiasm.

Chandramogan is from Thiruthangal in Virudhunagar district. But he identifies himself more with Chennai — he’s travelled every street, every by-lane of the city on foot and on bicycles, that he knows it like the back of his hand. In fact, his life can be divided into the pre- and post-Royapuram days: if his pre-Royapuram days taught him business the hard way, his post-Royapuram days turned his life around.

It was in 1970 that Chandramogan first started making ice candies with three people in a rented place measuring 250 sq.ft. in the area — Pandian, Rajendran, and Paramasivan are names he will never forget. For, they helped create his first-ever batch of ice creams. They initially sold in pushcarts. “The first 10 years were a lot of struggle,” says Chandramogan.

With a majority of ice cream makers operating out of a cottage industry set-up, theirs threatened to become one of the over 40,000 such businesses. But Chandramogan managed to keep his business afloat and bring it into the organised sector. “We were willing to take the plunge,” he says. “In our first year, the turnover was Rs. 1,50,000. But in the 1990s, we crossed Rs. 3 crore.”

They gradually became one of the biggest players in the State in ice creams. But Chandramogan didn’t stop at that — he branched into the dairy business, since they were constantly in touch with farmers across Tamil Nadu. Thus was born Hatsun Agro Product in 1986. Chandramogan initially wanted to call it ‘Hotsun’; but he felt Hatsun had a nice ring to it. Today, over four lakh farmers are associated with them and Hatsun has created a model such that there are no middle-men between themselves and the farmers. “This is mainly to control costs better,” he explains.

Chandramogan has come a long way from his tiny factory-cum-sales outlet: today, his company’s constructed area measures a three million sq.ft. and employs around 8,000 people. His company launched Ibaco six years ago, that lets customers enjoy ice cream as scoops with a choice of toppings, in a nicely done-up parlour.

But their USP has always been the old-fashioned ice cream parlours that bring to mind cosy rooms with plastic chairs and r